Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Author
Love, Milton S.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Author
Bizzarro, Joseph J.
0000-0002-2412-9357
joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov
Author
Cornthwaite, Maria
0000-0002-1528-3272
maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Author
Frable, Benjamin W.
0000-0003-4525-0671
bfrable@ucsd.edu
Author
Maslenikov, Katherine P.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
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Zootaxa
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2021-10-19
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Liparis tunicatus
Reinhardt, 1836
.
Greenland
Seasnail or
Kelp Snailfish
. To
20.7 cm
(
8.1 in
) SL (
Stasko
et al.
2016
). Circumpolar, to as far north as
82°29’N
,
62°15’W
at Ellesmere Island (
Mecklenburg
et al.
2011
); Beaufort and Chukchi Seas to northern Bering Sea at Saint Matthew Island, Alaska and Gulf of Anadyr,
Russia
(
Mecklenburg
et al.
2018
) and Sea of Okhotsk (as
Liparis marmoratus
) (
Schmidt 1950
). Adults benthic, juveniles associated with medusa (Coad in
Coad and Reist 2018
); depth: intertidal to
415 m
(
1,361 ft
) (
Mecklenburg
et al.
2011
), and perhaps to
600 m
(
1,968 ft
) (
Mecklenburg
et al.
2011
).
Liparis herschelinus
(Scofield, 1898)
is a synonym (
Mecklenburg
et al.
2016
).
Liparis marmoratus
Schmidt, 1950
, identified from the Beaufort Sea, is likely
L. tunicatus
(
Mecklenburg
et al.
2016
)
.